1. Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names inUTF-8 format. When creating ZIP archive, WinRAR stores names in Unicodeonly if they cannot be stored correctly using the current single bytecharacter set.

2. Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.

3. Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names.

4. "Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modesare now available in archiving dialog. They allow to specify WinRARbehavior when updating already existing files in archive. Unlikealready available "Fresh existing files only" and "Add and updatefiles", these new modes ignore file date and compare only file names.

Command line equivalents of these modes are:

a) switch -o enables "Ask before overwrite" archiving mode;

b) switch -o- enables "Skip existing files" archiving mode;

c) switch -o+ enables "Overwrite all" mode (default for archiving).

5. New "Add to context menu" option in "Profile parameters" dialog.If this option is on, the profile name will be displayed in Explorercontext menus allowing to activate a profile from context menu.

6. New -cp switch allows to select a compression profile incommand line mode. It is supported only by GUI WinRAR.exe, not byrar.exe.

7. New "Options" page of archiving dialog contains the group ofsettings modifying the behavior of "Delete files after archiving"option from "General" page:

All these options have an effect only if "Delete files afterarchiving" is on. You can enable any of these options in the defaultcompression profile to change the default behavior of "Delete filesafter archiving".

8. WinRAR "Extraction path and options" dialog is now resizable.You can use the mouse to drag its border to the desired size andprovide more space for folder tree pane. WinRAR will store newdimensions of this dialog.

9. New "Update" SFX script command and "Update mode" group ofoptions in "Update" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog. Thesecommand and options allow to check time and implement file time basedupdating;

11. New "Wipe temporary files" option in "Settings/Security"dialog provides more secure, though slower, way to delete temporaryWinRAR files.

12. WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking amultivolume RAR archive if all volumes are present in the same folder.

13. WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environmentvariables in list files. For example, a list file can contain lineslike:

%windir%\*.exe

%USERPROFILE%\Desktop

This feature is available only in Windows RAR version.

14. Added support of TAR archives with non-zero "extra field" data.

15. Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain the end of archive entry consisting of 512 zero bytes.

16. Improved Unicode support when dragging files from WinRAR window.

17. Shift+Tab key combination can be used in main WinRAR window toswitch the input focus between interface elements (files, comment,tree, address) in reverse order. In previous versions Shift+Tab usedthe same order as Tab.